Let me tell you a little bit about our guest today! Ilise Carter is an award-winning sideshow performer  – yeah – you heard me right – she a sword swallower, fire eater, blockhead and pain-proof girl who has worked with Rob Zombie, Cirque du Soleil, and appeared on Gossip Girl, Oddities, The President Show, Mysteries...

Is your calendar stacked with zoom meetings on top of zoom meetings? The average company executive spends 23 hours per week in meetings, even though most of them useless and not the highest and best use of their time? Listen in to discover the 6 psychological reasons why we schedule and attend useless meetings and what...

Henry Ford once said, “There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.” If that is the case then how do we unlock the hidden potential in ourselves. How can business leaders unlock it within their team members? Listen in as I talk with Rick Lozano author...

“Chris and I are working from Buenos Aires and traveling about Argentina for two months.” That was an email I received back from a person in my network the other day. It made me stop and think, is there a reason why I’m not working from Buenos Aires, or anywhere other than home right now...

Have you ever thought about creating communication goals? We set goals for lots of other things in our lives, exercise, eating healthy, milestone projects and many more.  What would it look like if we approached communication in a more strategic way? I wonder how much better we would be at asking for what we want,...

Are you old enough to remember a world without cell phones or text messaging – where the only phone you had was attached to a wall in your house, most likely in your kitchen, and if you wanted a private conversation you needed to stretch the phone cord all the way into the bathroom and...

A 2013 study conducted by the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University Showed that women are keenly aware of the rewards of visibility. They know that being noticed — for example, by interjecting during meetings and taking credit for accomplishments — is a conventional strategy for professional advancement. Still, to this day many...

We know St. Valentine as the Patron Saint of Love, but he was also the patron saint  beekeeping, fainting, and the plague. Doesn’t that just ooze romance? Studies show that there is some serious polarization around valentines day. Almost half of Americans describe Valentine’s Day as “overrated,” yet another 43 percent call it “romantic.” Listen...

Can the time of day affect how creative you are, whether or not you will get a raise when you ask for it, if you will get better treatment in a hospital or score better on tests. Well, the research overwhelmingly says yes, to all those things and many more. Big data studies show that...

The concept of music as a healing influence, one which can affect our health and behavior is at least as old as the writings of Aristotle and Plato and in some cultures, long before that.  Music Therapy, as a 20th century profession formally began after World Wars I and II when community musicians of all...